Bishaidrun Village Outreach

A RAM Airborne medical outreach in partnership with the Ministry of Health recently visited the remote village of Bishairdrun in the deep south of the Rupununi.  On board the Cessna was a Medex, Dentex, Malaria Microscopist, Environmental Health officer and HIV councilor and tester.  The combined team delivered 164 individual services including twenty one vaccinations.

A colaborative village project a few years ago to build and certify this new airstrip along the Brazil boarder miles west of Achiwib has allowed for emergency access and outreach activities.  Pictured here is Aishalton Dentex Nicolei Poon working to extract the painful tooth of a local resident. 

Following the outreach programme the same afternoon there was still enough daylight to pick up two 'medivac' patients with the RAM air-ambulance; one an obstetric emergency out of Annai airstrip.